The age of insight
Subtitle: the quest to understand the unconscious in art, mind, and brain : from Vienna 1900 to the present
By: Eric R. Kandel
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 636
ISBN-13: 9781400068715; 9781588369307
Subjects: Subconsciousness in art; Perception; Subconsciousness
Table of contents: title: A psychoanalytic psychology and art of unconscious emotion; title: An inward turn : Vienna 1900; title: Exploring the truths hidden beneath the surface : origins of a scientific medicine; title: Viennese artists, writers, and scientists meet in the Zuckerkandl Salon; title: Exploring the brain beneath the skull : origins of a scientific psychiatry; title: Exploring mind together with the brain : the development of a brain-based psychology; title: Exploring mind apart from the brain : origins of a dynamic psychology; title: Searching for inner meaning in literature; title: The depiction of modern women's sexuality in art; title: The depiction of the psyche in art; title: The fusion of eroticism, aggression, and anxiety in art; title: A cognitive psychology of visual perception and emotional response to art; title: Discovering the beholder's share; title: Observation is also invention : the brain as a creativity machine; title: The emergence of twentieth-century painting; title: A biological science of the beholder's visual response to art; title: The brain's processing of visual images; title: Deconstruction of the visual image: the building blocks of form perception; title: Reconstruction of the world we see : vision is information processing; title: High-level vision and the brain's perception of face, hands, and body; title: Top-down processing of information : using memory to find meaning; title: The deconstruction of emotion : the search for emotional primitives; title: The artistic depiction of emotion through the face, hands, body, and color; title: Unconscious emotions, conscious feelings, and their bodily expression; title: A biological science of the beholder's emotional response to art; title: Top-down control of cognitive emotional information; title: The biological response to beauty and ugliness in art; title: The beholder's share : entering the private theater of another's mind; title: The biology of the beholder's share : modeling other people's minds; title: How the brain regulates emotion and empathy; title: An evolving dialogue between visual art and science; title: Artistic universals and the austrian expressionists; title: The creative brain; title: The cognitive unconscious and the creative brain; title: Brain circuits for creativity; title: Talent, creativity, and brain development; title: Knowing ourselves : the new dialogue between art and science.